Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They also felt that there was a considerable amount of frustration among students who did not rank high enough to join one of the three honoraries. By creating the possibility of membership not based on rank, they hope to ease this frustration...
...States contains maps, travel and nature information, museum listings. Above all, it contains an account of "the restless edge of American society"-an edge that we at TIME have often explored. In his preface, Poet-Critic Kenneth Rexroth writes: "The inhabitants of the Pacific Coast are in the front rank of a world revolution that will make a far greater difference in human life than either the French or the Russian revolutions, or both of them together...
...less important to the BGMA officers than the question of professional negotiators, but for some reason very important to the rank-and-file, was the question of how a new union might help the BGMA members if a strike ever became necessary. BGMA officers believe that the prospect of a strike at Harvard is extremely unlikely. They contend that the University would do virtually anything to avoid the embarrassment of a picket line marching around John Harvard's statue. But the problem of a strike came up frequently in encounters between the business agents of prospective unions and the BGMA...
...continued. "We'd only have to infiltrate the next organization that the SDS followers fled to." It is far more practical, Zagarelle contended, to allow diversity among radical groups and work within the membership of each group. History has proved, he continued, that the support from the rank and file is more important than control of the leadership...
Essentially, SDS criticizes the labor movement for being undemocratic and for limiting itself to bread-and-butter issues. A good union, SDS believes, operates through participatory democracy. All questions--how shop stewards will be appointed, the amount of dues, the nature of the contract--should be referred to the rank-and-file to be decided by majority vote...